West Side Story

West Side Story
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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 9, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1961
  • Label: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1961 - Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Irwin Kostal, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin & Sid Ramin
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Director: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Sound: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris
Academy Awards 1961 - Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno
Academy Awards 1961 - Honorary Awards: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh93%

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Total Count: 70

Upright84%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 168,848
...You'd be a fool not to buy it and once more savour the muscular song-and-dance numbers...
Total Film
Jul 1, 2003
Rating: A+ -- [VIDEO ESSAY] Indisputably the greatest musical ever made, "West Side Story" (1961) has sadly proven socially timeless regarding America's eternally troubled immigrant experience. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Aug 4, 2012
..Incredibly cool...
Entertainment Weekly
Apr 4, 2003
Rating: 5/5 -- It's impossible to begrudge the vertiginous energy and feeling that make this one of the great American musicals, and one radically told through dance. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sep 16, 2011
[E]very Bernstein song's a humdinger with sizzling Sondheim lyrical gags. Cosily cool.
Uncut
Dec 1, 2003
[P]owered by phenomenal songs and a fiery Rita Moreno.
USA Today
Apr 8, 2021
For the superlative-minded, West Side Story is the most expensive musical film ever made. It's also one of the best. Full Review
Associated Press
Feb 15, 2019

Product Description:

Considered one of the most popular musicals of all time, WEST SIDE STORY earned director Robert Wise an Oscar for Best Director as well as nine other Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Realistically portrayed characters and their surroundings and expert editing complementing innovative dance sequences mark this highly stylized modern-day Romeo and Juliet tale. The stage is set in New York's Upper West Side in the 1950s, where the area's slums are plagued by racial tensions acted on by two rival gangs: the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Caucasian Jets. In the middle of this mess is young, innocent Maria (Natalie Wood), a Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother, Bernardo (George Chakiris), is the leader of the Sharks. Despite the warnings of Anita (Rita Moreno), Bernardo's fiery girlfriend, Maria falls in love with a young, hopeful Polish boy, Tony (Richard Beymer), who used to belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff (Russ Tamblyn). When Tony, on Maria's urging, tries to stop a rumble between the gangs, tragedy ensues, marking their dedicated love affair with violence and desperation. The infectious, lyrical landmark score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim help round out one of the greatest musical experiences ever captured on film.

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  • Sales Rank: 31,985
  • UPC: 883904284307
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